Internal, External, and Pragmatic Influences: Technical Perspectives in the Development of Programming Languages.

Abstract

This paper reviews key issues likely to shape the design and development of programs and programming languages as efficiency constraints relax and computational power increases. These issues are; (1) the use of the dictions of mathematics to define operations that can be used to achieve user-defined desires and expectations concerning an intended application; (2) techniques for designing and producing the expected results: the use of very-high-level programming languages for prototyping; the development of application-oriented languages; the design of applications using standard operations; and the development of a library of modules which handle substantial fragments of important applications; and (3) a language's usefulness, i.e., its general nature and its user-oriented features. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA091301

Entities

People

  • Jacob T. Schwartz

Organizations

  • New York University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Assembly Languages
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Debugging
  • Differential Equations
  • Grammars
  • High Level Languages
  • Language
  • Mathematics
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Development
  • Test Methods

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Theoretical Analysis.